Unwrap the mystery of Japan’s spirituality at Unesco World Heritage site Kumano Kodo. The pilgrimage routes to Wakayama’s Kumano Sanzan shrines in the Kii Mountains, known as the Kumano Kodo ...

Ski resorts are reporting similar issues. The Kumano Kodo, a sacred route for over 1,000 years, is an antidote to that. It is likely to remain so, not least because the amount of accommodation is ...

The Kumano Kodo was designated UNESCO World Heritage in 2004. Travel the JR Sangu and Kisei Lines along the trails on the Iseji route between Ise Jingu in Mie Prefecture and Kumano Hayatama Taisha ...

Located south of Osaka on the Kii Peninsula of Japan‘s Honshū island, the Kumano Kodo trail system is an ancient religious route that connects three sacred sites, Yoshino and Omine, Kumano ...

People say it carries the voice of the deities, which seemed appropriate as we were on the Kumano Kodo, Japan’s ancient pilgrimage route. Kohei Yuri explained to us that he and his wife had come ...

His three-stringed instrument, the sanshin, resembles a banjo, except that its body is covered in snakeskin. People say it carries the voice of the deities, which seemed appropriate as we were on the ...